AWPGA Health and Genetics Database
Fellow Wirehaired Pointing Griffon breeders and owners: please participate in the AWPGA Health and Genetics Database. You do not have to be an AWPGA member to participate. We are looking to collect as much pedigree and health information as possible, so that we can go forward with a clearer picture of where the breed is currently and make appropriate breeding decisions. http://www.awpgadb.com/
2014 Hunting Issue of the Griffonnier
I am now co-editor of the Griffonnier with Amy Caswell-O’Clair from New Hampshire. The first issue that I’ll be working on is appropriately the Hunting Issue 2014. If you are an AWPGA member and have hunting training tips, hunting tales and photographs, or game bird recipes, please e-mail them to griffonniereditor@cox.net by November 30th. If you aren’t an AWPGA member, please consider joining us: http://awpga.com/beamember.html. We will be having our annual gathering in Fall 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa and would love to have you all join us.
Pups Hunting in North Dakota
I’m getting good reports out of North Dakota from both my puppy owners and Charles. Here’s Susan’s North Dakota hunting party, with our pup TracHer from our 2012 “C” Litter from Sam and Mae. Susan and TracHer are on the far left of the photo.
Susan and TracHer with friends and family.
Susan said that the numbers were great and that they all would have had their limits if their shots had connected. I know that feeling!
Ernie is having fun in North Dakota with 7 month old Duncan, from our 2014 “H” Litter from Sam and Mae.
Duncan and Ernie with a pheasant limit
Ernie has also picked up a GoPro camera and got some video of points and retrieves from Duncan. GoPro seems to have improved the distance perception in the newer models, it seems more true to real sight. I couldn’t be more pleased with this footage, what great work for a 7 month old pup.
Hunt Test News
Congratulations to Sal and Chester (TracHer’s littermate) on two AKC Senior Hunter passes at the Long Island (New York) Viszla Club the weekend before last!
Sal and Chester with SH ribbons
Also, congratulations to John and his pup, Cle, who is our Fire’s brother, on his NAVHDA Natural Ability Prize III at 8 months with the MidSouth NAVHDA Chapter in Pelham, Tennessee over the weekend.
More North Dakota
The dogs and Charles rolled into North Dakota mid-day Sunday, giving them some time to hunt in the afternoon and evening. He took his first ever Hungarian Partridge then. (Sorry for the low quality phone photos)
Charles’s first Hungarian Partridge
I received another truck and bird photo mid-afternoon today, a drake redhead and two nice roosters. The story on the duck is that he was working a slough surrounded by a cornfield when a group of ducks got up from the pond. Charles tucked down, with this one flying in range. The duck landed in standing corn and little Fire retrieved it. He took the two roosters an hour or so later within 5 minutes of each other, but saw nothing else the rest of the day. Still a nice bag.
Drake redhead and two roosters
Good luck to everyone else in the field out there!
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